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Word just came in from Team NINJA Creative Director Tom Lee in regards to The Fall Classic tournament on September 13th to September 15th in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Tom Lee said:

My DOA Fighters, I've got some good news and some bad news for The Fall Classic tournament. First the bad news...

The "Life & Times" video crew from Jay-Z will not be able to attend TFC due to scheduling conflicts. Sorry fellas, really tried to hook this up for you guys. I'll keep talking to them and see if there's another opportunity for us in the future. Now the good news...

GamesterGear headphones has just signed up to sponsor our highly anticipated team tournament on Friday at TFC! Which means, they will be donating $1500 into the pot for the team matches! So, show some love to GamesterGear when you get a chance.

Therefore, in addition to the $8K we're putting into singles matches, there's now a total of $9500 worth of pot prizes for the DOA5 Ultimate tourneys at TFC! That's a lot of dough for...

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Famitsu has released information on new Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate online features. It's a short list, but are some interesting ideas.

Summer Jam 7 is being held this weekend (August 17th and 18th, 2013) in Philadelphia, PA. The event schedule has been released, and the stream schedule with it.

Below is the current (emergency changes can happen) schedule:

Summer Jam 7 registrants, you are reading that title correctly! Team NINJA Creative Director and long-standing friend of the community Tom Lee will be in attendance, preview build in tow. This is a great opportunity to meet a member of our favorite developer and Tom is looking forward to meeting all of you, new faces and veterans alike. Absolutely anybody, competitor or spectator, will be able to swing through and put the game through its paces ahead of its release early next month. If you are in the Philadelphia area August 17-18, or can be, check the Summer Jam 7 event thread right here for full details on the event, including the address.

Information on available features in the build will be forthcoming, so check back on this post for any updates. For now, get those last minute travel plans squared away. We're sending Dead...

This past Saturday NorCal fighting game tournament BEST of the Battle hosted their 3rd installment in the BOTB series. With 7 games across the board for the day, it's no wonder the venue was overflowed for the FGC event. 1st place honors goes to CrazySteady for taking home his first offline tournament victory. Steady also showed why he's one of the most versatile players in DOA5 with his wide character selection. Persistent Stat had a solid showing with his 2nd place standing. NykNyks took 3rd which makes that his third consecutive BOTB event with top 3 placings.

DOA5 Final Results:
1st - CrazySteady

2nd - Persistent Stat

3rd - NykNyks

4th - SomewhatMental

5th (tie) - HajinShinobi / Pink Nitro
7th (tie) - Shadow / Shytzoo
9th (tie) - Nai / Rekushin

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This Saturday, August 3rd, the third installment of Bay Area fighting game tournament BEST of the Battle III will be taking place in San Jose. This is likely to be the last big DOA5 tournament in the west coast until Ultimate drops. BOTB has been a strong supporter of DOA related events since the release of DOA5 in September. The staff for the event work do their best to make sure each event has something offer for all fighting gamers, especially DOA players.

West Coast DOA heavy hitters HajinShinobi, CrazySteady, Renarism, Shadow, and BOTB 1 champ NykNyks are strong favorites to duke it out for 1st place. BOTB 2 champ Punishere may attend the event to defend his title. Regardless of your skill, come down to the event for a day filled with fighting games. The tournament lineup for the day includes Soul Calibur V, Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Injustice: Gods Among Us, and of course, Dead or Alive 5. The event...

Recently, the guys at Eurogamer picked a great time to post an article about the Heart Of Gaming arcade in London. While Mark "Firebug" Starkey isn't the only one deserving credit in this article, it's goes without saying that the accomplishment itself is very gratifying and the recognition helps us realize the scope and scale of what we have on our hands and help do a better service for the community.

Shout outs to Joff and Bulletproof for being the number one soldiers in this struggle and Shadowforce for sacrificing his time and money to come and help us out on some important occasions where help was very needed (and playing some DOA with me when the place was quiet).

What matters now is to build something for the future, including the UK and surrounding European community and supporting our great players, from the stoic and seasoned English players, to the energetic Germans, to the old school French...

Just over two months from now, the first Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate major will begin. Players have been finalizing travel itineraries, reserving rooms or places in them, and picking apart DoA5U trailers to find something to give them an initial leg-up on the competition; it all comes together on September 14th. There's also a little something going on September 13th for the early birds, but we'll get to that in a minute. All of the details for the main event itself can be found right here in the event thread. Head over, RSVP, post up your questions, and start building that hype!

But the most important thing you can do? Register! Either click that fancy red link or the giant banner up top to be taken...

Emmanuel "MASTER" Rodriguez was able to get some time with Shimbori Yohei, the director of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate, and ask him a few questions from the DOAWorld community. Be sure to check out the interview as there's many good questions I see asked often. For example, Shimbori comments on the network issues from Dead or Alive 5, Costumes and Stage DLC, Dead or Alive x Virtua Fighter, changes in the hold system, and even comments about a Emmanuel's desire to see a global fighting game tournament that has participants from Europe and Japan attend to take America's crown. There are even more questions that are asked, so please check out the interview and discuss below.

Kicking off the ramp up to what is argued as the biggest Dead or Alive 5 tournament of the year, ShinBlanka has released the second trailer for The Fall Classic being held in Raleigh, North Carolina on September 14th and 15th. The trailer even gives Dead or Alive 5 a major spot in it to showcase how serious ShinBlanka, BigE Gaming, L.I. Joe, and SweetJohnnyCage are taking this game and this event.

It should be noted that with the recent announcement of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate's release date being September 3rd, this event will be hosting a Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate tournament. The community is hoping to make this their biggest event ever, shooting for more than 100 entrants into the tournament. If those numbers hold true then you're looking at a pot prize greater than $1,000. This tournament is sure to be huge as it attempts to be a serious contender to that of Evolution.

The Fall Classic...

Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Core Fighters, a free-to-play version of the already announced DoA5U, has been officially announced and will be hitting PlayStation 3 (and potentially Xbox 360) day and date with the full retail release of the game. Currently slated for September 3rd, 2013 in North America and releasing the rest of that week in other territories, Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate is a updated version of the current release, Dead or Alive 5. Complete with new characters, stages, moves, animations, and system mechanics, this release will incorporate ideas and feedback from both Team NINJA itself as well as the fans. DoA5U: Core Fighters is yet another surprise from TN and it also represents something of an evolution on the basic concepts of a demo.

Core Fighters will include all online play modes, stages, and offline play modes, with the exception of the Story Mode. It will include Ryu Hayabusa, Kasumi, Ayane, and Hayate as playable characters out of the gate, with the option to...

This weekend we have two major events going on hosting Dead or Alive 5 across the world.

In the United States, SweetJohnnyCage will be running East Coast Throwdown V in Morristown, NJ. SJC has been running tournaments for a few years now, and is even one of the main event coordinators for The Fall Classic coming later this year. This year's East Coast Throwdown will be held in the same event location as the previous year: Hyatt Morristown. Dead or Alive 5 will be taking place on the Xbox 360 starting Sunday, May 19th at 2 PM.


In Australia, @Berzerk will...

It's official, the new Dead or Alive project that we were all teased to last week with a glimpse of Momiji, has now been confirmed by this week's Famitsu magazine via Siliconera as Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate.

The magazine didn't share much information beyond that, only highlighting that it will include Momiji and additional characters, stages, etc. which, of course, we all already know.

But with E3 only a few mere weeks away, you can definitely expect Team Ninja to drop a few subtle hints and teases leading up to the big unveiling.

You can carry on the discussion in the...

Last weekend, the West Coast DOA scene had it's 2nd tourney major at NCR XI. The Road to Evo event took place in Sunnyvale, California from April 26th-28th. Over 25+ entrants for DOA5 alone marked this as the biggest West Coast major thus far in the game's lifespan. Congrats to Sweet Revenge, who flew out from Texas, for taking 1st place. Additional info + pics from the NCR madness can be found by clicking here.

Final Results

1st - Sweet Revenge (Sarah)

2nd - Galen the Wise (Akira, Mila)

3rd - Air Gear

4th - NykNyks Breezy


The good people over at SturdyPine.com sat down with the DOA community to ask us a few questions.

Top 4...

For players outside the USA, here are some exciting Dead or Alive 5 tournaments coming up around the world. Make sure you show your support for the fighting game scene near you, and help build the DOA community!

If you know of an "international event" you'd like featured, please post in the thread and we'll add it!

For May 2013 - players in the UK and Australia have these respective events to look forward to.

In the UK, on May 26: Ultimate Clash 2

Revitalising the UK scene! Come join us and check out the weekly events as well.

http://www.freestepdodge.com/thread...t-of-gaming-doa5-doa2u-doa2m-scv-london.2764/

In Australia, on May 17-19: Battle Arena Melbourne 5

As part of a major festival of fighting and...

What's up guys & gals of the DOA community I love so much. I bring to you another recap of the DOA tourneys that have been took place over the past couple months. Got a couple majors, couple international, and lots of local tourney results for this roundup. Enjoy.

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CEO Winterfest 2013

Altamonte Springs, Florida

January 26th 2013

Good to see that Florida hosted a DOA tourney! Unfortunately, I could not find any DOA related media from this event nor any information on who used what character. I personally don't recognize any of the competitors names but don't let that take away from the fact that they showed up to compete. Hope to see these names again in future events!

Final Results

1. Jazz Primm

2. Tysen

3. The Law

4. DR Balrog

5. Skeptic

6. Solid Neku

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Just a quick heads up, GameStop is selling their copies of Dead or Alive 5+ for the PlayStation Vita as they receive them and many have started selling today. Check with your local store to be sure but this is nationwide. For our members from other locations around the world, check with your game shops as there may simply not be a street date at all for the title.

Please note that preorder DLC codes WILL NOT WORK until the PlayStation Store update on 3/19. Preorder DLC is live in the US. Trophies are also not syncing yet, but that may go live before the update. Be patient with those codes and don't become little rage monsters blowing up Team NINJA, Tecmo Koei, or GameStop on social media.

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Actually, DO blow up GameStop on social media. Just not the other two.

Trophy syncing should now be working for everyone. One day until the official release in NA everywhere besides GameStop!

Update: Team NINJA has officially sponsored Final Round 16, and has graciously given $5000 to be distributed across the top 8 qualifiers. So if you want a chance at the money or just want to show your stuff, and have not yet registered, there's only three days left to register for the event. Pre-registration has now closed, but if there are spots open in the brackets then you will be able to register at the door on Thursday morning before the event, with a lack of being seeded.

Shin Blanka said:

I would like to WELCOME TEAM NINJA to the FINAL ROUND family as our latest sponsor. I would like to personally thank Tom Lee for spearheading this effort for the DOA5 community as TEAM NINJA will be donating $5000 towards the top 8 qualifiers at FR16! There's more exciting news coming for the hypest tournament in the MILKY WAY!!!! there's only 3 days until online registration is closed! Goto...

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Some incredibly formidable competitors absolutely tore up Winter Brawl 7 this past weekend in Philadelphia, PA, with a few high profile upsets and a first win in a major for our Winter Brawl champion SweetRevenge. At the moment, the best way to check out the matches is to sift through the TwitchTV FreeStepDodge and Team Sp00ky accounts (main tournament and final four, respectively) but when we have direct links we'll update this post. For now, stop on by SweetRevenge's profile here on FSD and blow him up with congratulatory messages; while you're on that you may as well also give props to the rest of the top four: XCalibur BladeZ, Mamba, and Rikuto.

Everyone put on a top-notch showing and the matches were pretty interesting to watch almost from the get-go. Check out the full results below

1. Sweet Revenge
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GVN Winter Brawl will be starting tomorrow, and many of the attendees are currently en route to the event. Games will be had, food will be eaten, drinks - many drinks - will be consumed, and fun will be had. Big E Gaming has released the following schedule for the weekend's event.

Now, I will be on site attempting my best at streaming any Dead or Alive 5 matches on the Free Step Dodge Twitch.TV account. Internet will be limited so please bear with me. The top 4 are scheduled for Sunday on Team Sp00ky's stream.

http://bigegaming.com/winter-brawl-7-pools-schedule-and-stream/

WB7 ONSITE REGISTRATION, GAME & STREAM SCHEDULE!

SATURDAY -

Registration:

8AM to 12PM: (FRONT DESK) Onsite registration for AE2012, MK9, P4U and UMVC3 singles
8AM to 11AM: (FRONT DESK) Registration for AE2012 and UMVC3 3v3 teams
10AM to 12PM: (FRONT DESK) Registration for DOA5 teams
1PM to 3PM: (FRONT DESK) Onsite registration for DOA5...

According to Polygon, Vivek Shah, the CEO of Ziff Davis Media which owns IGN has sent out an announcment discussing a recent shake up in the 1UP, GameSpy, and UGO offices. There have been some editorial layoffs in each of the three sections, but some employees will be moved into the IGN Editorial Staff.

This isn't typically the news that I would put on the front page, but Ziff Davis also comments about the potential future of the IGN Pro League (IPL). Specifically, it looks like they are in discussions to sell off the league, but nothing has been set yet. Dead or Alive 5 was recently announced to be in the IPL game line up. Although there has yet to be an event to showcase the game, no word of IPL being sold or its future has been provided.

Full announcement with IPL section bolded.

Vivek Shah said:

Date: February 21, 2013
Subject: Staff Announcement

Today, we took some...

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